What to Read After Los Angeles
Readers who loved Los Angeles by Reyner Banham keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Los Angeles is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Los Angeles
City of Quartz
The Image of the City
Extrastatecraft
Americans and the California dream, 1850-1915
Infinite City
Power of Place
Infrastructure
Learning from Las Vegas
Buckminster Fuller's Universe
California
Pocho
Coast of Dreams
The Global City
Transit Maps of the World
City of Darkness
Ecology of Fear
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
Architecture
101 things I learned in architecture school
Cadillac Desert
A Pattern Language
The Architecture of Happiness
The Loved One
Invisible Cities